Superbug
Subtitle: the fatal menace of MRSA
By: Maryn McKenna
Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781416557272; 9781416557289; 9781439171837
Description: McKenna reveals the hidden history of MRSA's relentless advance-- how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and live-stock, moving inexorably into the food chain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254)  and index.
Table of contents: title: The first alert; title: The cloud babies; title: The silent attack; title: The puzzle pieces; title: The biggest thing since AIDS; title: The flood rising; title: Gone without warning; title: The foe on the field; title: Prison, the perfect incubator; title: Into the food chain; title: Soap, the wonder cure; title: The end of antibiotics; title: The epidemics converging.